Santa Maria Style BBQ Pits

Hey Gang I am originally from Santa Maria, California, home of Santa Maria Style Barbeque. I wanted to send out some pictures of the type of pits we use there. Here are a number of pics and closeups of some of the components, hookups and welds...

Typical Pit about 3' x 4' grill

(courtesy of Santa Maria BBQ Outfitters)

Used brick pit with electric trigger to raise and lower grill

Same pit showing wood box full of red oak ready for Q'ing

Close up of Electric trigger

Back side of lower gear, gear box and chain

Upper gear configuration

Burning the wood down to coals

Another manual gear box configuration of a built in Pit.

Smaller pit with rotisserie

Closer view of same pit

Close up view of how the grill is attached to stainless cable and grill channel